Why I have only just setup my blogroll

Jan 30, 2008 Author: Matt Ridout | Filed under: Internet News, seo

Ok, so those of you that are regular visitors to Seounique may or may not have noticed a few blog changes happening. For those of you who are not aware of my changes:

Added social bookmarking buttons after each post
Added a contact page (roll on the spam)
Added an advertise page to offer spots on my “Top Spots“
Updated blogroll and included “Seo Blogs”

I hope all these features will help with the usability of the site and make performing actions that little bit easier. As to why I have started to add “Seo Blogs” to my blogroll is quite simple. Nothing in this world is free as many people know (not all) and I have a list of around 20 seo blogs I visit on a regular basis which part of me thinks I should link to. As much as I would like to send them over a little complementary link juice I just can’t justify it at this point. Although 2 sites that have given to the site in different ways will now be positioned on Seounique.

I will only be linking to SEM or SEO blogs as thats what my readers find interesting, so no gambling yada yada…

If you feel like you could offer something to the site (however little) and join in with my sometimes rambling discussions then let me know and you could see your link here.

6 Responses for "Why I have only just setup my blogroll"

Matt Hanson January 30th, 2008 at 6:00 am 1

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Matt Hanson
Matt Ridout January 30th, 2008 at 6:35 am 2

Thanks for the kind comments Matt, you have a nice blog yourself!
Wayne Smallman January 30th, 2008 at 8:22 am 3

When I read the title, I thought you were offering a ‘blogroll for fellow writers.

I dropped mine ages ago.

For me, if I’m going to link to someone — or a group of people — I do so in a conversational style within an article, throwing in some solid anchor text — which totally out-weighs a ‘blogroll in terms of relevance…
Matt Ridout January 30th, 2008 at 8:31 am 4

Hi Wayne,

I see where you’re coming from with this but I think we are looking at this differently.

I consider a “blogroll” to be almost a sites “recommendations” – or even friends if you will. I would not put a link to a site I didn’t consider there to be some kind of relationship with and one my readers would find useful.

The intention is not to help with their backlinks or SE rankings but to mark that “I” respect “U” in what you do.

You are right on the money with what you say, just different opinions of what a blogroll should be used for
Tad Chef January 31st, 2008 at 9:05 am 5

You should hide the number of subscribers though as long as it’s below 100. Otherwise people will assume that either you are very new or not worth subscribing to.
admin January 31st, 2008 at 9:14 am 6

Thanks Tad, I’ve taken your advise